Many of us are in the middle of creating our unit plans. One of the concerns you may be having is how to conceptualize and plan activities that address your key learning goals and provide students with opportunities to actively engage with these topics. We have also introduced the planning grid as a way to quickly consider a sequence of activities before beginning planning lessons in earnest. In this activity, we'll use planning grids as a tool for understanding brief descriptions of some science learning sequences.
Your goal for this activity is NOT to create a planning grid so someone else's teaching! Your goal is to consider what the key aspects of a learning sequence that engage students in active learning, and then think about you can STEAL these aspects to apply to your own unit!
Instructions
Work in groups of 4.
In each group, read one of the case studies that describe a learning sequence taken from the National Science Education Standards
Use the worksheet provded to create a draft planning grid.
Discuss your lesson sequence in your group. Work together to create a shared, more complete, version of your case's learning sequence.
On a URITK page:
take a photograph of your group's planning grid and include it on your URITK page.
answer the questions below on your page.
be prepared to share with the class one aspect of your case that (1) encourages active learning and (2) could be "transferred" to a variety of topics.
Discussion Questions
What are some things you learned about planning and teaching from your vignette?
What were the critical aspects of the lesson sequence? How would you "transfer" these aspects to address another topic?
How did the teacher engage students in the topic?
How did sequence facilitate "active" learning on the part of the students?
Purpose
Many of us are in the middle of creating our unit plans. One of the concerns you may be having is how to conceptualize and plan activities that address your key learning goals and provide students with opportunities to actively engage with these topics. We have also introduced the planning grid as a way to quickly consider a sequence of activities before beginning planning lessons in earnest. In this activity, we'll use planning grids as a tool for understanding brief descriptions of some science learning sequences.
Your goal for this activity is NOT to create a planning grid so someone else's teaching! Your goal is to consider what the key aspects of a learning sequence that engage students in active learning, and then think about you can STEAL these aspects to apply to your own unit!
Instructions
Discussion Questions
Team Pages: